The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study - Softcover

Wallerstein, Judith S.; Lewis, Julia; Blakeslee, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786886161 ISBN 13: 9780786886166

Publisher: Hyperion, 2001

Synopsis

A landmark study of the long-term impact of divorce explores its effects on children into adulthood, marriage, and their own parenthood, revealing how they cope with their own fear of failure in relationships and their efforts to overcome that fear. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith S. Wallerstein is widely considered the world's foremost authority on the effects of divorce on children. The founder of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition, she is a senior lecturer emerita at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author, with Sandra Blakeslee, of the national bestsellers The Good Marriage and Second Chances, and with Dr. Joan Berlin Kelly of Surviving the Breakup.

Julia M. Lewis is a professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University, where she is Director of the Psychology Clinic and Coordinator of the Clinical Pyschology graduate program. She is co-principal investigator of the 25-year Children of Divorce Project.

Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science correspondent for The New York Times.

Synopsis:

A landmark study of the long-term impact of divorce explores its effects on children into adulthood, marriage, and their own parenthood, revealing how they cope with their own fear of failure in relationships.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786886161
• ISBN 13: 9780786886166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384